A crater on the Moon was named after a Russian scientist

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MOSCOW, June 8 A crater in the southern polar region of the Moon was named after the Soviet and Russian scientist Eric Galimov, the official Telegram channel reported on Saturday Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation.
“The International Astronomical Union (IAU) approved the idea of ​​Russian scientists and assigned the name of the famous geochemist and planetary scientist, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Erik Mikhailovich Galimov to a 34-kilometer crater in the southern polar region of the Moon. The name “Galimov” is now officially enshrined in planetary nomenclature,” the statement says. .

Staff from the Laboratory of Comparative Planetology of the Geochemical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, together with colleagues from the Institute of Space Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences, with financial support from the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, analyzed data on the composition of the lunar soil in the crater and its environs and found that it is noticeably depleted in hydrogen.

According to the researchers, this may be due to the fact that magmatic melt was introduced under the crater in recent, from a geological point of view, time. The bottom of the crater is covered with cracks, which may also be a sign of magma rising.
Scientists believe that the crater itself was formed approximately 3.85 billion years ago, and magmatic activity under it took place in the range of 1 billion to 200 million years ago. Since the crater is located in the polar region, it is possible that the regolith on its bottom may contain an admixture of water ice and other volatile components. The study of the Galimov crater will be continued.

Eric Galimov was born on June 29, 1936 in Vladivostok. In 1959, he graduated from the Faculty of Geology, Geochemistry and Geophysics of the Moscow Institute of Petrochemical and Gas Industry. THEM. Gubkin (now Russian State University of Oil and Gas named after I.M. Gubkin).

Since 1973, Galimov headed the laboratory of carbon geochemistry at GEOKHI, from 1993 to 2015 he was the director of this institute, and since 2015 — its scientific director. Since 1994, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Galimov developed an isotopic method for identifying oil source rocks and experimentally confirmed the possibility of diamond formation in the process of cavitation (formation of gas bubbles in a liquid). In addition, the scientist was the author of scientific justifications for exploration of the Moon and Mars («Luna-Glob», «Phobos-Grunt»). The scientist died on November 23, 2020.